[The marketplace arguments for local economy and liberty of action are in our day pressed down nearly to death by the regulatory state. A main source of power for the total security state is administrative law, which absorbs any of those with whom the state has a conflict (the exhaustion of administrative remedies rule). The oppression  of the modern state against our liberties is comprehensive, as Philip Hamburger explains. Only an overwhelming series of trends or events can sweep its mountains of legal deadwood. This structure arises partly on account of the state’s entering the stream of commerce and acting … Continue reading Local economy & its enemies: Absolutism of administrative law